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Bleeding Fairy Helmet

Mycena haematopus

Photo by Christine Y.
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Small, pinkish gray mushrooms with white gills. They exuded a purple juice from the stem and flesh when I disturbed them. You can see the actual drops dripping off of a mushroom cap in photos 2-3.

Habitat:

Growing in a cluster on dead, rotting wood in a mostly deciduous forest.

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